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Subject: [gopher] Re: An alternate gopher-driven universe?
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:05:09 -0700 (PDT)
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> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/13/2039205
> 
> That is some crazy stuff...

It does make some interesting points, though. The one I found particularly
noteworthy was that gopher in some respects was easier to deal with for
simply serving multimedia.

More to the point, if WWW had died out, WWW-like features probably *would*
have started to emerge within gopher menus. It *is* a logical extension to,
say, only make part of a menu item active. Eventually some sort of markup
language would have evolved, even if it wouldn't have looked much like SGML.

Thanks for the link.

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